Handyman · Newark and New Castle County

Bring us the list. See the number before anyone comes out.

Book the hours, tick what is on the list, and the form below shows a real range in about a minute. $95 an hour with a 2-hour minimum, and the hardware each job needs shown as its own line rather than turning up on the invoice.

Price my list Call (301) 555-0142

One person, one van, all day Licensed and insured We say no to what we cannot do

Instant price range

The same person every timeYou get the one who quoted it, not whoever was free that morning.

Hours are hoursWe charge the time we work. Finish early and the bill is shorter.

Parts at cost, receipt in handYou buy the fixture. We bring what fastens it to the house.

We tell you when it is not usA leak in a wall or a roof is a specialist, and we will say so.

What we do

The jobs that are too small for a trade and too big for a Saturday

Most visits are three or four of these in an afternoon. If your list is only one thing, the flat-price menu further down is usually cheaper than buying 2 hours.

Counted, not ticked

Lights, fans and switches

Swapping a fixture for one you have already bought, a fan for a fan, a switch for a dimmer. The one item on the list we count, because nobody ever does just one.

Most asked for

TVs, mirrors and shelving

Finding studs, the right anchors into plaster or brick, a mount that is actually level, and the cable tidied away behind it.

Small plumbing only

Faucets, shower heads, running toilets

A swap, a flapper, a fill valve, a wax ring. Anything inside a wall or under a slab is a plumber and we will tell you so on the phone.

Patch and paint

Drywall the doorknob went through

Holes, dents, popped nails and the hairline over the door. Compound, mesh, primer and your paint matched. Whole walls are a painter.

Sticking and dropping

Doors, latches and weatherstripping

Shimming hinges, moving a strike plate, a closer that has given up, the storm door that catches at the bottom.

Walk-through first

Turnovers and punch lists

A rental between tenants, a house going on the market, a snag list on one you have just bought. We walk it and price it line by line.

How we price

Hours for the labor, a line for the hardware, and nothing hiding behind either

The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than one number because your list and our estimate of your list will not agree to the minute — but the rates behind it are the ones below, and they do not change when we see the driveway.

Book the hours

$95 an hour, 2 hours minimum — a $190 visit. Four hours is half a day and gets through four or five jobs. Guess high: we only charge the time we work.

Tick what is on the list

Each tick is the hardware, fittings and supply-house run that job drags in. You buy the TV, the faucet and the fixture; we bring everything that fastens it to the house.

See the range

Midpoint plus or minus 9%, with your ZIP’s travel line already in it. A list that prices past $1,600 gets a walk-through instead of a number, because by then it is a project.

$95/hr 2-hour minimum — a $190 visit — then by the hour

Light fixtures, fans and switchesCounted one by one. Box, bracket, wire nuts and the run for whatever is missing.
$45 each
Hang a TV, mirror, cabinet or shelf on the wallAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$65
Any small plumbing — faucet, shower head, running toiletAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$70
Patch and paint drywallAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$55
Doors — sticking, latching badly, closers, weatherstrippingAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$45
Shelving, closet rods, blinds or flat-pack assemblyAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$50
Is any of it above the first floor, or outside off a ladderSlower on everything, so it lifts the whole visit.
+12%
Take the old parts and the packaging awayAdded once for the visit, however many there are.
$55

The one thing this form cannot do, said out loud

A ticked box is added once for the visit. Tick “hang a TV” and you are charged $65 whether it is one TV or three, because that box has no way to say how many. So we do two things about it.

Fixtures, fans and switches are counted instead of ticked — $45 each, as many as you have — because that is the one item people genuinely buy in threes, and pricing three of them as one would be wrong by real money.

Everything else we true up on the call. Tell us it is three TVs and we will say what the extra two cost before we book you, not after. The hours you booked are what actually decides how much of a list we get through, and that number is never rounded in our favour.

One job, one price

If the list is one line long, do not buy 2 hours

Plenty of the people who ring a handyman have exactly one thing wrong. Pick One job, one price in the form at the top and you get a flat price for it instead: the $89 call-out is inside the number rather than added afterwards, and nothing on that menu leaves the shop for under $185.

Two jobs off that menu is nearly always dearer than one 2-hour visit, and the form will show you both, so compare them before you book. We would rather you spent less and called us again.

Mount a TV on drywall or brick
$135
Swap a ceiling fan where one already hangs
$165
Replace a toiletYou supply it, or we pick it up on the way.
$185
Replace a kitchen or bathroom faucet
$155
Patch drywall up to a foot square, and paint it
$120
Assemble one piece of flat-pack furniture
$75

Service area

Based in Newark. We drive out, and we say what it costs.

Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. No surprise on the invoice, and no half-hour drives built into everybody else’s price.

Local: Newark and northern New Castle CountyZIPs 197xx
No travel fee
The rest of Delaware: Wilmington, Middletown, DoverZIPs 198xx and 199xx
+$35
Over the line: Cecil County MD, southern Chester County PAZIPs 219xx and 193xx
+$65
Everywhere else we travelAny other ZIP we can reach
+$95 and +5%

Notes for anyone evaluating the demo

Priced path. Pick Handyman visit — your list, by the hour, then: 4 hours, 2 fixtures, TV Yes, plumbing No, drywall No, doors No, shelving No, ladder No, haul-away Yes. Use ZIP 19711. The live engine returns $537 – $643, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox.
The counted item versus the ticked ones. Repeat that path with 1 fixture and it comes back $496 – $594; with 3, $578 – $692 — $45 a step, because question 2 is a number with a multiply. Now try to say “two TVs”: you cannot. A yesno with a flat rule adds $65 once, and that is the multi-select gap in docs/trade-pages-plan.md §9 showing itself. The page above discloses it rather than hoping nobody tries.
Minimum floor. 2 hours, 0 fixtures, every tick No, ZIP 19711: $190 – $207. The low end sits on the $190 minimum rather than 9% below it.
The percent rule. Same as the priced path but ladder Yes: $601 – $720. That question is a percent, not a fee, so it lifts the whole visit by 12% instead of adding dollars.
Travel zones. The priced path at ZIP 19805 (Wilmington) applies the rest-of-Delaware fee: $569 – $681. At 21921 (Elkton, MD) or 19348 (Kennett Square, PA) the over-the-line fee applies: $596 – $714. At 21044 (Columbia, MD) nothing matches, so the catch-all does: $650 – $779.
Out of area. Use ZIP 99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.
Over the ceiling. 10 hours, 4 fixtures and every tick Yes. The midpoint clears the service’s $1,600 threshold, so the widget routes to “we’ll come and look” rather than printing a number.
The base-fee service. Pick One job, one price: a ceiling fan swap, first floor, we pick the part up, take the old one away, next opening, ZIP 19711 → $303 – $355. The $89 call-out is base_fee, so it is inside every one of those numbers and cannot be answered away. One flat-pack piece with everything else No comes back $185 – $200, sitting on that service’s own $185 minimum.
Menu against hours, which the copy above claims. One TV mounted off the menu is $206 – $242; a fan swap alone is $234 – $274 — two separate call-outs. Both of those jobs inside one 2-hour visit (2 hours, 1 fixture, TV Yes) is $273 – $327. That is the comparison the page tells you to make, run with the engine rather than asserted.
Routing mode. Pick Whole-house lists, turnovers and small projects. That service is in site-visit mode, so it never shows a price at all, whatever is answered.
No season. This fixture carries none, deliberately: a handyman’s spring rush changes how long you wait, not what an hour costs. So every figure here is the figure all year, and the engine’s $season === null path is what these runs exercise.
The widget’s green matches this site because the account’s key carries a theme color; the same script on an agency’s client site would carry the agency’s color.